Aggelos Economopoulos’s lwn.net articles titled “A Peek at the DragonFly Virtual Kernel” are now available as a single item on dragonflybsd.org, with some additional details that didn’t appear in the initial version.

kern.ipc.nmbufs and kern.ipc.nmbclusters sysctl variables are now read-only, and can only be set at boot. Previously, changing them on a running system would show changed values in any application that reported them, but it wouldn’t actually take effect. If you don’t already change these values, this won’t affect you.

Chris Turner posted a nice summary of work that would be needed for C99 compatibility in libm. Sepherosa Ziehau also posted a short guide on how to create new drivers for wpi(4), as the existing drivers (in any BSD) are not up to snuff.

If you are mirroring Joerg Sonnenberger’s pkgsrc binary archive from its old location at packages.stura.uni-rostock.de, it’s time to switch.Â He has a new site, and until his bandwidth has stabilized, it’s best to mirror from Simon ‘corecode’ Schubert’s site at chlamydia.fs.ei.tum.de.